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May 22nd

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Weight stigma can make you sick with stress: Exercise is the best remedy

Weight stigma can make you sick with stress: Exercise is the best remedy

Doctors and nutritionists generally agree that obesity increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, certain kinds of cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and is associated with shortened life spans.

But research by Janet Tomiyama, assistant professor of psychology in Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences, suggests that the social stigma attached to being overweight also can make people sick.

Tomiyama and her co-authors will present their findings at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Athens next month.

“It’s not just that weight stigma makes you feel bad, which is bad enough,” Tomiyama said. “It’s that weight stigma, in itself, is associated with speedier biological aging.”

Tomiyama and three co-authors at the University of California-San Francisco, where she was a postdoctoral researcher until last year, studied 42 pre-menopausal women who were overweight or obese, but otherwise healthy. They measured the women’s height and weight, their body-mass index (BMI), and took periodic blood and saliva samples. The researchers also asked the women specifically about being stigmatized for their weight: how often that had happened and how humiliated they had felt on a rated scale. All reported some level of weight stigma, from worrying about being negatively judged because of their weight to being denied a job.

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Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas: 'Come hungry, leave in an ambulance'

Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas: 'Come hungry, leave in an ambulance'
BY ADELE SAMMARCO
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Apparently, what stays in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas for one man who decided to try his luck at a Triple Bypass Burger.

That’s one of the Heart Attack Grill...

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Makers of Infant Tylenol issue recall, offer refund for bad bottle design

Makers of Infant Tylenol issue recall, offer refund for bad bottle design
BY TERI GATTO
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Johnson and Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare has recalled yet another one of its products.

This time Tylenol for infants has been found problematic and the company...

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Facing potential doctor shortage, N.J. Senate approves bill for action

Facing potential doctor shortage, N.J. Senate approves bill for action

New Jersey could have 2,800 fewer physicians by 2020

A bill which would require the state Health and Senior Services commissioner to convene a planning summit to examine an expected shortage of physici...

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Kombucha tea: Hot health drink is gaining steam

Kombucha tea: Hot health drink is gaining steam
BY MARGARET MORGAN
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

What do kombucha tea and sourdough bread have in common? They both are bred from a “mother,” a solid mass that is a culture of yeast and bacteria often called a ...

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Hospitals can 'throw out' a patient, even at 2 a.m.

Hospitals can 'throw out' a patient, even at 2 a.m.

Please see special medical alert for seniors below

BY CAROL ABAYA
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
THE SANDWICH GENERATION

Question: "I am 85 years old and went to the local hospital/emergency room at 10 a.m. in an a...

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Good news about erectile dysfunction: Therapies and treatment

Good news about erectile dysfunction: Therapies and treatment
BY WARREN BOROSON
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The oldest patient to receive a penile implant from Dr. Robert B. Simon was 97 years old. The man is perfectly content with the operation—but wishes that he had i...

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Is Mars candy's Snickers shrinking and calorie cutting really 'fun' sized?

Is Mars candy's Snickers shrinking and calorie cutting really 'fun' sized?
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Mars makes seven of the top-selling brands of chocolate in the world, and they’ve agreed to help the American people "just say no." Get ready for more fun sized candy.

I...

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N.J. announces pilot program to grade quality of 215 assisted living facilities

N.J. announces pilot program to grade quality of 215 assisted living facilities

A new four-year-long pilot program, will offer a designation by the Health Care Association of New Jersey Foundation, which verifies that an assisted living facility has satisfied all state licensing ...

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